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UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is a major research enterprise focused on developing wireless sensing systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and societal pursuits. In the same way that the development of the Internet transformed our ability to communicate, the ever decreasing size and cost of computing components is setting the stage for detection, processing, and communication technology to be embedded throughout the physical world and, thereby, fostering both a deeper understanding of the natural and built environment and, ultimately, enhancing our ability to design and control these complex systems.
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National Science Foundation
Cooperative Agreement #CCF-0120778
Title: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
PI Names: Deborah L. Estrin, Michael Hamilton, Mark Hansen, Thomas Harmon, Gaurav Sukhatme
Effective Date: August 1, 2002 Expiration Date: July 31, 2012

 

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Nathan Langholz
  Pulling Punches: A Nonparametric Regression Approach to Punch Force Estimation

  January 27, 2012 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Alan Borning
  The Living Voters Guide: supporting reflective public thought

  November 18, 2011 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Santosh Kumar
  Addressing Stress and Addictive Behavior in the Natural Environment Using AutoSense

  November 4, 2011 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Zainul Charbiwala
  Energy Efficient Acquisition and Inferencing for Low Power Physiological Sensing

  October 28, 2011 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• 2011 CENS Summer High School & Undergraduate Scholars Poster Symposium

  August 12, 2011 -- 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: CENS Courtyard (Boelter Hall 3551)

  Description: Please join us as we celebrate the work of the 2011 CENS Summer High School & Undergraduate Scholars at this culminating poster and demonstration session. Lunch refreshments served. Please RSVP at: http://research.cens.ucla.edu/apps/rsvp/signup.cfm?Event=122. Read More

• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Hossein Falaki
  SystemSens: A Tool for Monitoring Usage in Smartphone Research Deployments

  June 24, 2011 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Jonathan Friedman
  Biomimetic Electrostatic Imaging: When it comes to underwater embedded sensing, fish have all the answers!

  May 27, 2011 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS SRC URO Scholars Final Poster Presentation

  May 20, 2011 -- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  Location: CENS Courtyard

  Description: Please join us in celebrating the accomplishment of our 2010-2011 CENS SRC URO Scholars at this culminating poster presentation event.

• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Rahul Balani
  Distributed Programming Framework for Fast Iterative Optimization in Networked Cyber-Physical Systems

  May 6, 2011 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Jeff Burke
  Embedded and Mobile Applications of Named Data Networking

  February 25, 2011 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Joseph C. Toland
  Managing Geospatial Support for Disaster Response Operations: Mobile Technology and Crowd-Sourcing

  February 11, 2011 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Benjamin Stokes
  Direct Action Games to Restructure Civic Participation

  January 7, 2011 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Rahul Mangharam
  Closing the loop with Networked Cyber-Physical Systems

  December 3, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Jeff Vaughan
  Information-flow for everyone

  November 12, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Nithya Ramanathan
  Transforming mobile phones into scientific data collection instruments for personal and global health

  October 29, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Anil Madhavapeddy (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
  Mirage: a new multi-scale operating system for clouds and crowds

  October 15, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Neal Patwari (Utah)
  Locate people without radio tags: Device-free localization in wireless networks

  October 1, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Prof. Pai Chou (UCI)
  Eco: the ultra-compact wireless sensor platform and applications

  September 24, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Commons 4760 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Summer@CENS Final Poster Symposium

  August 13, 2010 -- 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: CENS Building Courtyard (3551 Boelter Hall)

  Description: Please join us in celebrating the work of our 2010 CENS High School & Undergraduate Scholars at the Summer@CENS Poster Symposium. Read More

• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Prabal Dutta
  Pervasive Personal Sensing

  June 11, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 3551 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Zainul Charbiwala
  Compressing Location Traces using Maps

  June 4, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: CENS Main Conference Room, 3551 BH

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• CENS SRC URO Scholars Poster Session

  May 14, 2010 -- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  Location: CENS Courtyard

• CENS SRC URO Scholars Event: From Mount St. Helens to the White House: Where a Degree in Science or Engineering Can Lead

  May 14, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Lin Zhong
  Toward a sensory mobile system

  May 7, 2010, 1:00 PM -- May 13, 2010, 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Jeongyeup Paek
  Energy-Efficient Rate-Adaptive GPS-based Positioning for Smartphones

  April 30, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Karen Kim
  CENS Ethics Seminar: Discussion about Authorship

  April 16, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Yuvraj Agarwal
  Building Aggressively Duty-Cycled Platforms to Achieve Energy Efficiency

  April 9, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• MIT Technology Review - Mobile Health Apps That Share

  24-Jun-11

  The Open mHealth project provides technology for mobile health apps that transmit a variety of data to the project's central data warehouse. Read More

• Imagine Magazine - Become a citizen scientist with your cell phone

  06-Jun-11

  This article in the May/June 2011 Media & Technology issue of Imagine magazine features CENS participatory sensing research and its power to enable citizen scientists, targeted primarily to an audience of middle school and high school students. Read More

• Daily Bruin - Fusing art and statistics

  10-May-11

  CENS Member Mark Hansen's work highlights the often overlooked relationship between science and art. Read More

• Daily Bruin - Health? There's an app for that

  04-Nov-10

  CENS Director, Deborah Estrin, and colleagues are building mobile health, of mHealth, systems for people to manage chronic disease and other health-related conditions. Read More

• Employment Opportunities at CENS

  28-Oct-10

  The Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is seeking three full-time contract-based software developers to participate in the exciting new NSF funded project MOBILIZE. Read More

• Technology Review - Improving Phones through Surveillance

  15-Oct-10

  Apps that track how people use their phones could help make the devices more efficient. Work by CENS student Hossein Falaki is highlighted at Technology Review.
  UPDATE: see also Microsoft Research Article.

• UCLA Newsroom - UCLA receives $12.5 million grant to increase computer science instruction in urban schools

  07-Oct-10

  UCLA has been awarded $12.5 million from the National Science Foundation to help advance new and innovative computer science instruction in high schools, especially those in large urban school districts. Read More

• CENS Student wins 2010 ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award

  06-Oct-10

  Congratulations to CENS student Alberto Pepe for receiving the 2010 ProQuest Dcotoral Dissertation Award, given by the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Read More

• Four CENS Students Win Fellowships

  08-Jun-10

  Congratulations to four CENS graduate students for winning outstanding fellowships. Min Y. Mun and Matt Mayernik were awarded a UC Dissertation Year Fellowship; Donnie Kim was selected as an Intel PhD Fellowship recipient; Teresa Ko won a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. Read More

• Miller-McCune - Invasive Weeds? There's An App for That

  13-May-10

  Thanks to the work of Eric Graham and other CENS researchers, resource managers working in national parks have a new tool in their arsenal to monitor and control invasive weeds: a mobile application that allows park visitors to identify and report harmful non-native plants. Read More

• Conservation Maven - Using public surveillance cameras to detect evidence of climate change

  02-Apr-10

  CENS Researcher Eric Graham and fellow researchers from UCLA have tested out an approach of using public internet-connected cameras to monitor plant changes on a continental scale. The method may help scientists detect the signals of climate change. Read More

• Daily Bruin - Environment 185 Class Uses Smart Phone Features Such as GPS to Research Green Issues on Campus

  12-Feb-10

  While most students use their cell phones to text or chat, those enrolled in an environmental studies class are putting a scientific twist on the gadget. Four current research projects for the class Environment 185 incorporate CENS’s technology for gathering information through smart phone features like cameras and GPS. Read More

• The New York Times - Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We’re Getting There

  30-Jan-10

  Years ago, enthusiasts predicted the coming of “smart dust” — tiny digital sensors, strewn around the globe, gathering all sorts of information and communicating with powerful computer networks to monitor, measure and understand the physical world in new ways.
  
  Several CENS projects are highlighted. Read More

• LA Times - Brendan M. Kutler

  07-Jan-10

  It is with profound sadness and a great sense of loss that we inform you that Brendan Kutler, one of our CENS High School Scholars in 2008 and ongoing contributor to CENS participatory sensing research, passed away in his sleep on December 29, 2009 at the age of 17. It's an understatement to say that he will be missed as part of the CENS family. More information is available at www.bkutler.com

• Santa Barbara Independent - Cell Phone App Combats Weeds

  06-Jan-10

  UCLA and the National Park Service have teamed up to combat weeds. The university’s Center for Embedded Network Sensing (CENS) and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area developed a cell phone app to locate invasive plant species within national parks, which will help park service workers. Read More

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